{"id":5751,"date":"2015-10-23T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-23T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bsuenglish.wordpress.com\/?p=5751"},"modified":"2021-11-17T21:50:45","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T02:50:45","slug":"niki-wilkes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bsu.edu\/english\/blog\/2015\/10\/23\/niki-wilkes\/","title":{"rendered":"Niki Wilkes: Marketing Coordinator in publishing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Niki Wilkes earned her B.A. in Creative Writing in 2015 and her M.A. in Publishing Studies. Currently, she’s a Marketing Coordinator at Ave Maria Press<\/a> in Notre Dame, IN.<\/em><\/p>\n

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I am not the traveling type. I am a Hoosier girl through and through, and a homebody at that. I ended my junior year thinking I would finish my degree and look for a job in a small publishing house in Indianapolis\u2026 maybe Chicago if I was daring. I knew next to nothing about how to be a publisher, but I figured most publishers started that way.\"12108217_10153091389636837_315434360069056146_n\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Then senior year approached, and I suddenly thought, \u201cHey, wouldn\u2019t it be cool if you decided to leave everything you were comfortable with to get a Masters degree in England?\u201d It was probably meant to be just a daydream, but my brain took it seriously, <\/strong>and before I knew it the question became less hypothetical.<\/strong> On Saint Patrick\u2019s Day I received the email from University College London offering me a place on their Publishing Studies course.<\/p>\n

Now I am in my third week of classes, and I have to say that getting here was half of the battle. I never realized how spoon fed my life had been. I\u2019ve applied for schools before, but not to a place where I couldn\u2019t call with questions. I\u2019ve had to find housing, but never without a network of people helping me in the search. I\u2019ve done paperwork, but I\u2019ve never been forced to play \u201cbureaucratic jump rope\u201d like I did to get my Visa.<\/p>\n

My courses are like nothing I\u2019ve experienced before. <\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

I\u2019ve gone from writing critical analyses for grades to writing blog posts for prizes. Each class is jammed with all 62 Publishing Studies students, meaning the pressure to network and know everyone, as well as to stand out, is on. Next term, I\u2019ll be required to intern at one of London\u2019s 300+ publishing houses, meaning I have to study the industry, go to workshops, and watch social media like a hawk. Gone are the strictly theoretical discussions of my undergraduate days.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I don\u2019t say all this to scare anyone thinking of getting a Masters, abroad or not. In fact, I have never felt so passionate about my choice as I do today.<\/strong> I tell you all this to explain that this experience has made me really want what I was chasing after.<\/p>\n

Not everyone needs to get a Masters to do well in their job. However, for someone like me, who needs to be thrown completely out of their element to grow, it might be the only way to reach their full potential.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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